Jon
Udell: This time, though, I heard something I hadn't the
first time -- about standards. When the construction project drew
in artisans from the 13th-century French countryside, the first
order of business was to agree on standard weights and
measures.

Since I write in XML, my input strategy was to use numeric
references, which meant typing this string of characters:
"r&#233;sum&#233;s" -- and that's exactly what showed up on
the InfoWorld home page when the item was excerpted there.
Evidently the process that creates those excerpts is reading, but
not parsing, RSS feeds.

But the resulting display was wrong, until I switched the
browser's text encoding to UTF-8. I guess I should have my search
server emit the appropriate UTF-8 header.

Given that you previously had successfully issued a query using
the default (iso-8859-1), it is probably fair to presume that if
you were to make this change, queries issued from this page which
contain international characters will no longer work as they will
now be utf-8 encoded.

Wed 28 Apr 2004

i18n again

Let me get this straight: one member of the RSS Advisory Board writes software that miswrites RSS, the second member of the Board writes software that misreads RSS, and the third member of the Board writes a column that misinterprets the situation?

Fri 30 Apr 2004

splintered rss

When people say more formats, or varying practices don’t cost, they are either naive or acting in their own interest, not ours.—Dave Personally, I don’t see RSS and Atom as the same formats. Sure, their uses may overlap. But,...